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A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country...
The title of this collection, Profiling Shakespeare, is meant strongly in its double sense. These essays show the outline of a Shakespeare rather diff...
Literature as Uncanny Causality
Marjorie Garber examines the authorship debate surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly that the plays were ghostwritten....
Marjorie Garber examines the rites of passage and maturation patterns--"coming of age"--in Shakespeare's plays. Citing examples from virtually the ent...
From one of the world's premier Shakespeare scholars comes a magisterial new study whose premise is "that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that mo...
A Harvard English professor's intimate meditation on the pros and cons of reading in the digital age seeks to restore a traditional definition of lite...
Literature As Uncanny Causality
The plays of Shakespeare are filled with ghosts - and ghost writing. Shakespeare's Ghost Writers is an examination of the authorship controversy surro...
Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety
Beginning with the bold claim, "There can be no culture without the transvestite," Marjorie Garber explores the nature and significance of cross-dress...
The symptoms of culture are the anxieties that underlie modern life: the instability of gender roles, the mysteries of female sexuality, the enigma of...
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The History of a Cultural Obsession
What is โcharacterโ? Since at least Aristotleโs time, philosophers, theologians, moralists, artists, and scientists have pondered the enigma of ...
From Metaphor to Metamorphosis
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Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety
A revolutionary and wide-ranging examination of transvestism ranging from Shakespeare and Mark Twain to Oscar Wilde and Peter Pan, from transsexual su...
The untold story of Shakespeare's profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group "A spirited dance of minds."--Chris Vognar...
In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and...
In these provocative essays Marjorie Garber addresses the significance of the study of literature as it pertains directly to the human experience and ...
As a break from their ordained labors, what might the Muses today do on their lunch hour? This collection of witty, shrewd, and imaginative essays add...
What is the role of the arts in American culture? Is art an essential element? If so, how should we support it? Today, as in the past, artists need th...
Asthma is a common chronic inflammatory condition of the airways which causes coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath and tightness of the chest. Asth...
Cross-dressing & Cultural Anxiety
Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life
Garber's pathbreaking study of bisexuality as an erotic, social, and cultural phenomenon explores such topics as schoolgirl (and boy) crushes, sexual ...
Cross Dressing and Cultural Anxiety
"In Loaded Words the inimitable literary and cultural critic Marjorie Garber invites readers to join her in a rigorous and exuberant exploration of la...
Why We Love Houses
Cultural historian Marjorie Garber offers incisive and witty commentary on what men and women today really want in her enlightening study of what may ...